Improvement in combined canes and whips



0. H. SAXTON.

COMBINED CANE AND WHIP.

Patentecl Nov.2.1875.

N.FETERS, FHOTO-L|THOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, n C.

contained in the cane or handle portion. The

'lar disconnection of parts, and, when the smalli er sections have been drawn out or extendsponding threads on their contiguous surfaces,

spending parts.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

OLIVER H. SAXTON, OF WASHINGTON COURT-HOUSE, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED CANES AND WHIPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 169,485, dated November 2, 1875; application filed March 29, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known. that I, OLIVER H. SAXTON, M. D., of Washington Court-House, in the county of Fayette and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Combined Cane and Whip, of which the following is a specification:

In other combined canes and whips of this class the smaller or whip sections have been whip-sections have, however, required to be taken apart before they could be inserted in the cane portion, whereas in my invention such adjustment is readily obtained without simied to form the whip, they are secured in such position by a screw-joint formed by correas hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of the combined cane and whip when packed together. Fig. 2 shows the Whip detached from the cane and put together.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre- The cane-section A and whip-section E (of which'latter there may be two) are made hol- 1ow,,and of any suitable material, but preferably of sheet metal. The flexible but solid, tip F is adapted to slide into the section E,

and the latter into cane-section A.

When adjusted to form a whip, as in Fig. 2,

the parts are screwed together at G, there being corresponding or match screw-threads formed on the inner and outer surfaces of the sections A and E and E and F, it being, of course, indispensable that the taper of the sections shall be such as to prevent the parts E and F being drawn completely out.

When the parts E F are retracted to form a cane, as in Fig. 1, the screw-tip O closes the small end of section A.

7 When the device is used as a whip, head B of section A is removed and the tip 0 inserted and retained therein, Fig. 2.

I am aware that telescopic walking-canes have been previously invented; and I do not, therefore, claim, broadly, a combined cane and whip constructed upon the telescopic principle, but restrict myself to the construction and arrangement of parts hereinbefore described, of which the screw-joint is an important feature.

What I claim is The improved combined cane and whip composed of the solid flexible whip portion F and the tubular sections E A, said parts being telescopically arranged and correspondingly threaded at G to adapt them to be rigidly connected by a screw-joint when extended or drawn out, all as shown and described.

OLIVER H. SAXTON. Witnesses:

J. B. PRIDDY, F. A. MURRAY. 

